Vice President, Enterprise Architect

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Company Overview

With $5 billion in revenue and 3,500+ employees in the U.S. and Mexico, TBC Corporation is a leader in the mobility industry and one of North America’s largest marketers of automotive replacement tires through wholesale and franchise operations. TBC serves wholesale customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico through TBC Brands, NTW, TBC International, and TBC de Mexico. Additionally, TBC responds to the needs of consumers in search of total car care at more than 465 franchised tire and automotive service centers under Big O Tires®. TBC is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. TBC has 20 proprietary brands of tires specializing in passenger, commercial, farm and specialty tires. In 2005, TBC Corp. was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA). SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. In 2018 Michelin, the largest tire manufacturer in Europe, invested in the company which is now a 50:50, privately held joint venture between Sumitomo and Michelin.

Our values are the foundation of our work, how we interact with each other, and the strategies we employ to fulfill our purpose. These are the practices we use every day – in everything we do:

• Integrity - We act honestly because nothing is more important than our reputation.

• Teamwork - We are better together.
• People-Focused - We put people first – our Associates, customers, franchisees, and partners – and cultivate a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive culture, top to bottom, inside and out.
• Accountability - We own our actions and decisions; we do what we say we are going to do.
• Leave Everything Better - We innovate to improve everything we touch, and we take actions now to protect the future.

Description

TBC Corporation is seeking a forward-thinking and hands-on Vice President, Enterprise Architecture to lead the modernization of our enterprise technology platforms. This executive role ensures that the EA function continuously evolves with the changing business and technology landscape, guides modernization of the technology portfolio and helps connect IT investment decisions to desired business outcomes for revenue growth, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.  This role will drive the transformation of legacy systems into a cohesive, cloud-native ecosystem that supports scalability, agility, and data-driven decision-making. The ideal candidate will blend strategic architectural leadership with hands-on engineering expertise to design and implement modern solutions across core business functions.  As a “player-coach,” this individual will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, foster a culture of innovation, learning, coaching and mentoring, contribute to code when needed, and ensure architectural alignment with business goals.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Architecture vision and strategy that is aligned with TBC objectives.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives, including the migration from SAP ECC to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and legacy applications and websites to cloud-native applications on Google Cloud.
• Architect scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across all enterprise applications while balancing competing priorities such as cost, performance, and usability.
• Establish an architecture framework and best practices, along with overseeing the creation of a repository for requirements, architecture design documents, artifacts, and reference materials
• Design and guide the implementation of microservices-based architectures and event-driven systems.
• Act as a “player-coach” by contributing to codebases (primarily in Python and Java) along with leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Build proof-of-concepts and reference implementations for cloud-native services and data pipelines.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Oversee integration strategies between critical applications such as (but not limited to) SAP, Oracle, Google C